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Another thing to consider is OP may have seen him live and the joke was delivered that way.

I've seen George Carlin twice, each before an album came out, I remember listening to the album and remember liking a joke's structure better live than on the recording.

I've also seen videos of Ricky Gervais do his Hitler-Neizche bit in many different ways, some flowing better than others.

Most comics mold their act during a tour, tweaking things as they go. Once the material is at its best, it gets recorded. Any joke has probably been told 50 different ways to smooth out the flow and maximize delivery.

I don't know what these guys are talking about, it barely changes the nature of the joke whatsoever. Maybe if he said "Because I'm poopy lying." That would definitely ruin the rhythm. People would be confused.

I say we take the cursing out of the Redditoreese and just write without it. I think it would be a good way to make our old curses have more flavor instead of the daft curses we do now... I want to return to the part where curse words were the fun exception, not the rule...

You don't understand. Everybody in the world sits around all day on reddit and doesn't actually do anything. All of these photos and videos are elaborate setups specifically staged to increase our tallies of magic internet points.

I disagree completely. If a guy finds a working PS3 in the dumpster, that is a pretty interesting story. If some guy pulls a picture of a PS3 off the internet and posts it on reddit claiming he found it in a dumpster, there is nothing interesting going on there. You can say in the long run it doesn't matter because it is the story that is interesting, but the story is only interesting if it actually happened.

The thing is that you are never going to know if this thing really happened if the person remains anonymous. There's no way you can verify it. So all you've got is some anonymous guy's claim. It means nothing.

Here's a little trick lots of stand up comedians do. If you're telling a story about something that once happened to you, lead off with "The other day". So like "The other day I walked into a bar and such and such happened."

The advantage of which being that it's a phrase that sounds like you mean yesterday, but in reality, could be any day other than the current day. I've started doing this when telling stories to my friends because I hate when people start off a story trying to tell me exactly when it took place. I don't care, just move along.

I'd like to know where that pivotal moment in his career was, because early on he just kept recycling the same material. His stand up, his interviews they all had that joke about "God running out of extras in your life", then he met Carlin. Carlin told him that every year he'd throw out the previous year's material and start anew. It seems like Louis C.K. has been on a steady uptick ever since then.

He most definitely has gotten a bit more dark, his life and divorce have certainly influenced his comedy (Pootie Tang too, I bet (not knocking the film what happened to him and his show Lucky Louis seemed to have opened his eyes as to how show business works)). Well, anyway tangent returning to the circular logic point I was trying to make, where'd it all begin? At what point did he come into his own stride?

So again look at how stupid your conceit is. What if I was trying to be a troll, which by definition is to illicit a negative reaction? 90 downvotes is a very negative reaction, so if it was trolling, which it wasn't it was just an unpopular but true observation, that would be very good trolling. But because of the stupidity of your phrasing your comment can be taken one other way: if I'm not a good troll I must be a good commenter. But I know you'll be able to muster some denial about your idiocy. You're just one of the myriad of people on this site that is too stupid to understand how stupid you are, unfortunately.

There is an interview where he talks about exactly this moment. He was on stage, and he was having some problem with one of his daughters so he randomly threw out the line "My kids an asshole", just to vent a little bit not expecting any response. Unexpectedly people laughed, so the next night he elaborated a bit more, and that eventually grew into his whole routine talking about his family and inspecting his life.

Not really sure though, you could probably track the way his standup has changed in other ways, but if you want to pick one pivotal moment that is probably a good one.

You should watch his interview with Howard Stern. He goes into a good bit of detail about how he writes his material. I believe he said when he writes a special that he will never use any of the jokes he wrote for it before the special and will never use them again after it.

you answer your own question but anyways just cause Carlin helped him doesnt mean he cant be Best comedian alive, Keyword "Alive"... although i do disagree about him being the best but he is in my top 5 or 10 Best comedian/alive.

Burr is awesome. As a young dude with no real male role-models, I think Burr is an excellent substitute when it comes to a lot of the things that concern young bachelor dudes like myself. And he's funny as shit.

Also like to listen to Doug Stanhope. When you've have enough role-model material, go to Doug Stanhope lol (which sort of belies the fact that his material is actually all extremely socially conscious, it's just that it's delivered by an admitted degenerate alcoholic (I mean that in the most positive way lol); great "do as I say, not as I do deal I guess...)

I know they're completely different because he's clean, but I think Brian Regan is hilarious. Even if the jokes aren't good (but they usually are IMO) he has such great expressions and physical comedy that I seriously cannot stop laughing throughout the entire thing when I watch him.

I can't describe how happy I am to have lived a life that doesn't lead to me believing other people's stories are all fabrications. Believe it or not... some of us actually leave our homes and do fun things.